Ecology: A Pocket Guide - Softcover

Callenbach, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520257197 ISBN 13: 9780520257191

Publisher: University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos, "Ecology: A Pocket Guide" forms a dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through. An accessible, informative guide to achieving ecoliteracy, it tells the story of the amazing interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental degradation. This new edition has been updated throughout and features five new essays on the topics of biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.

About this title

About the Author

Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (UC Press), and Ecotopia Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

From the Back Cover

"A graceful, lucid, and judicious book that belongs in the back pocket of every planetary citizen."--Evan Eisenberg, author of The Ecology of Eden

"For you readers who hate science and never read it, Ecology: A Pocket Guide excites your understanding and gently shows you what you have been missing. For the rest of us, this book confirms our love for and respect for scientific insight as a major way of knowing."--Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520257197
• ISBN 13: 9780520257191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192